HCIed 2009

Programme

Full Programme Details

Conference Registration and Conference will take place in Level 3 Kydd Building, University of Abertay Dundee, Bell St, Dundee

Conference Registration - Wed 22nd 17:00-19:00

Civic Reception (Dundee City Chambers) 19:00- 20:30

Conference Registration – Thurs 23rd 08:00-09:30

Welcome (Professor Bernard King, CBE - Principal and Vice Chancellor, UAD) and Keynote Address (Dr Paul Curzon, QMC (University of London) – (09.30-10:30 23rd)

Coffee/Tea

Session 1 (11:00-12:30 23rd) Playing with their Education

Play to Test – Carlo Giovannella (Italy) (F)
So now you’re ready to play – but with what? A system to encourage playful exploration –
Jon Pearce and Sofia Pardo (Australia) (F)
Prototyping Games-Based Environments for learning C++ programming – Olaf Hallan-Graven and Lachlan MacKinnon (Norway/UK) (F)

Session Chair - Lachlan MacKinnon

Lunch

Session 2 (14:00-15:30 23rd) Interaction Design Techniques

Teaching Aesthetics in Interaction Design: Attempt One – Sus Lundgren (Sweden) (F)
Interaction Design as a Serious Game – Carlo Giovannella (Italy) (S)
Practical Interaction Design – Phil Turner and Susan Susan Turner (UK) (F)
Learning Cognitive Task Analysis – William Wong (UK) (S)

Session Chair - Colin Cartwright

Coffee/Tea

Session 3 (16:00-17:00 23rd) The Abertay Dimension

Developing Talent & Intellectual Property for Digital Entertainment: Space to ‘Play’? – Mark Grindle and Brian Robinson (UK) (F)
Entertainment Design – A Module in Expectation Management – Dayna Galloway, Iain Donald and Euan Dempster (UK) (F)

Session Chair - Janet Read

Conference Dinner (19:00-23:00 23rd) Sensation Science Centre

Session 4 (9:30-11:00 24th) Developing their Creativity - Making HCI Accessible

Auto-Ethnography: Problems, Pitfalls and Promise - Emilia Sobolewska, Colin Smith and Phil Turner (UK) (F)
Understanding and Supporting Technical Creativity - Corina Sas and Alan Dix (UK) (S)
Playing with Narratives – Anke Dittmar (Germany) (S)
Role-Play in HCI Studies – Kristina Moroz-Lapin (Lithuania) (S)
HCI Education in a Business School – Outside their Box – Philip Scown (UK) (S)

Session Chair - Tom McEwan

Coffee/Tea

Session 5 (11:30-12:30 24th) The Big Picture – Industry and Research Linkages

Playing the game: HCI careers in the competency era – Tom McEwan (UK)(F)
Bringing HCI Students into the Academic Playground - Janet Read, Gavin Sim, George Fligkos and Barbara McManus (UK)(F)

Session Chair - Jackie Archibald

Session 6 (12.30-1.30 24th) Panel Session
The quality of HCI PhDs:

What is a PhD these days?
What is a PhD in HCI these days?
What are our expectations as examiners of phds (in HCI)?
PhD: training in research vs doing interesting research

Panel Chair – William Wong, UK

Panel

Lachlan MacKinnon - Abertay Dundee U (UK)
Corina Sas - Lancaster U (UK)
Jon Pearce - Melbourne U (Australia)
Anke Dittmar - Rostock U (Germany)
William Wong - Middlesex U (UK)

Lunch and Farewell (13:30-14:30 24th)